The scheme started around 2008 with a trip to China, for which Miske brought a “large sum of money” to broker a deal, ...

To prevent tragedies like the New Year’s Aliamanu fireworks explosion that killed four people and injured dozens, city and ...

The only thing more reliable in Hawaii than the annual explosions lighting up the New Year’s Eve sky has been the failure of ...

A Honolulu City councilmember said weak city fireworks laws do not align with state regulations, so there is now a push to ...

According to city law, owning or using illegal aerial fireworks is currently a misdemeanor with a fine between $250 and ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A Honolulu City councilmember said weak city fireworks laws do not align with state regulations, so there is now a push to increase penalties for people who use, possess or ...

Shown here, illegal fireworks near Punchbowl herald the new ... neighborhoods it’s completely out of control, even in dense Honolulu neighborhoods. So it’s going to take social pressure ...

Each New Year's Day, Honolulu officials publish a list of fireworks casualties from the night before, typically a litany of burns, shrapnel wounds or amputations. Sometimes there are deaths.

Emergency crews arrived to a chaotic and gruesome scene in a Honolulu neighborhood after a large New Year's firework tipped over after being lit and ignited a fiery, shrapnel-studded blast that ...

A three-year-old boy has died of injuries in the massive explosion of fireworks at a home in Honolulu home on New Year's Eve ...

Some people nearby continued setting off fireworks even as blast victims were being taken to hospitals, officials said. The neighborhood is near Honolulu's international airport and a joint U.S. Air ...

A New Year's Eve fireworks explosion in a Honolulu-area neighborhood killed at least three people and critically injured at least 20 others, authorities said. "It looked like a war zone," said ...